You need to give us much more context. There are three different major desktop environments you might have used, each with their own properties. If you are using a graphical login manager, which one? If you are not, then you would still be in text mode at this point and the idea of a folder with a question mark does not make sense.

You need to give us much more context. There are three different major desktop environments you might have used, each with their own properties. If you are using a graphical login manager, which one? If you are not, then you would still be in text mode at this point and the idea of a folder with a question mark does not make sense.

A folder or file with ??? In its name or perms is usually due to a filesystem issue.
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